Singing the Gospel - Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation

Klappentext This book offers a new appraisal of the Reformation and its popular appeal! based on the place of German hymns in the sixteenth-century press and in the lives of early Lutherans. The Bohemian mining town of Joachimsthal--where pastors! musicians! and laity forged an enduring and influential union of Lutheranism! music! and culture--is at the center of the story. Zusammenfassung Brown offers a new appraisal of the Reformation and its popular appeal, based on the place of German hymns in the 16th-century press and in the lives of early Lutherans. The Bohemian mining town of Joachimsthal—where pastors, musicians, and laity forged an enduring, influential union of Lutheranism, music, and culture—is at the center of the story.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Boyd Brown, Brown Christopher Boyd
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2005
• EAN: 9780674017054
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01705-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Harvard Historical Studies; Harvard Historical Studies (Ha; Harvard Historical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, Germany, Christianity, Religion & beliefs, History of Religion, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Protestantism and Protestant Churches